The purpose of this study was to examine the multiple mediational roles of academic social comparison directions (upward academic social comparison and downward academic social comparison) on the relationships between achievement goal orientations (i.e., mastery goals, performance-approach goals, and performance-avoidance goals) and subjective well-being (SWB) in school (school satisfaction, sc...

Poor school performance is a common problem faced by schools, parents and physicians. Poor school performance (PSP) can be defined as a school achievement below the expected for a given age, cognitive skills, and schooling. It not only results in the child having a low self esteem, but also causes significant stress to the parents. It is usually a reflection of a larger underlying problem in ch...

Background Students' mental health is associated to academic performance. In high income countries, higher students' grades are related to lower odds of suicidal behaviors, but studies on other indicators of academic performance are more limited, specially in middle income countries. Methods Data from 28,519 middle and high school students selected with multistage clustered sampling in the Me...

High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of exercise are tackled by instrum...

BACKGROUND Performance in primary school is a determinant of children's educational attainment and their socio-economic position and health inequalities in adulthood. We examined the relationship between five common childhood health conditions (asthma symptoms, eczema, general health, frequent respiratory infections, and overweight), health related school absence and family socio-economic statu...

The main thrust of the study was to evaluate school heads’ human resource management (HRM) practices in relation teachers’ engagement and teaching performance. employed a descriptive survey method. It conducted among 55 private elementary schools Division Bohol using modified questionnaire checklists from Khan N. (2015), Klassen et al. (2012), Education Manpower Bureau (2003). Spearman Rank Cor...